For the Record, Op. 345: Mikhail Pochekin, David Russell, Duo FAE

August 7, 2025, 6:09 PM · Welcome to "For the Record," Violinist.com's weekly roundup of new releases of recordings by violinists, violists, cellists and other classical musicians. We hope it helps you keep track of your favorite artists, as well as find some new ones to add to your listening! Click on the highlighted links to obtain each album or learn more about the artists.

Violinist Mikhail Pochekin and pianist Kenny Broberg.

A Reflection of the Era
Mikhail Pochekin, violin
Kenny Broberg, piano

This is a live recording of a concert in Germany from 2025, with a program including sonatas by Cesar Franck and Edvard Grieg, as well as a very rarely performed sonata by Russian composer and pianist Nikolai Medtner (1880-1951). BELOW: Nikolaj Medtner: Sonate für Violine und Klavier Nr. 1 in h-Moll op. 21 - I. Canzona

Andalusian Legacy
David Russell, violin
Pedro Galiván, piano
Fabio Bosch Friere, flamenco guitar
Estefanía Brao, castanets
Johnathan White, tenor
Zaiba Sheikh, piano

"Andalusian Legacy opens not with a reverent whisper, but with a bang. In a series of violin-piano duos, violinist David Russell conjures the elemental force of Andalusian folk tradition — red-blooded, dusky, frank in its passions yet animated by unspoken sorrow. Three lieder on poems by Lorca offer repose, a brief return to slightly more spiritual realms, if only in instrumentation. But the album’s core remains unshakeable: music as pulse, breath and bloodline." David Russell - a long time member of Violinist.com - is currently the Anne R. Belk Distinguished Professor of Violin at The University of North Carolina at Charlotte and is Founder and Director of internationally renowned Masterclass Al-Andalus in Spain.

Dissidents of the Gilded Age
Duo FAE
Charlene Kluegel, violin
Katherine Petersen, piano

"Dissidents of the Gilded Age" is Duo FAE’s tribute to three pioneering women composers whose work and lives defied the social confines of their time. The album features "Trois Morceaux," Op. 31 by Cécile Chaminade, Violin Sonata in A minor, Op. 7 by suffragette Dame Ethel Smyth, and Amy Beach’s sweeping Violin Sonata in A minor, Op. 34. Anchored in the women’s suffrage movement of the 19th and early 20th centuries, this collection connects historical and musical dissidence with the present and enduring fight for Women’s Rights. BELOW: Amy Beach's Sonata in A minor, op. 34: II. Scherzo. Molto vivace.

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